'The Flash' Trailer: Worlds Collide in Perilous Multiverse
The new trailer for “The Flash” previews Barry Allen inadvertently changing the future when he goes back in time.
The standalone superhero film starring Ezra Miller is set to
open June 16 and will play at the Las Vegas convention two months prior to
release on Tuesday.
“I went back in time to save my parents,” Allen says in the
trailer. “But instead, I completely broke the universe.”
Warner Bros. Discovery also released a new one sheet for the
highly anticipated film.
“The Flash” is now part of the “Elseworlds” plan for the
unified DCU going forward, meaning it’s not technically part of the cohesive
storyline that DC Studios chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran are mapping out
but could have ramifications and crossover potential in the future.
Gunn heralded the film and recently said, “I will say here
that ‘Flash’ is probably one of the greatest superhero movies ever made.”
“I watched ‘The Flash.’ I’ve seen it three times. It’s a
very emotional movie,” Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav added at the
CinemaCon presentation. “You’re going to go through all the emotions. To me,
it’s the best superhero movie I’ve ever seen.”
Starring Miller as Barry Allen/The Flash and inspired by the
landmark comic “Flashpoint,” the film will see Allen travel across various
multiverses, encountering other versions of himself as well as a version of
Supergirl from an alternate timeline.
Additionally, the film also stars Michael Keaton making his return as Batman after nearly 30 years, as we first reported. Keaton first played Batman/Bruce Wayne in Tim Burton’s 1989 blockbuster, “Batman,” a critical and financial success co-starring Jack Nicholson as the Joker that changed how superhero films were viewed — and paved the way for the genre’s future box office domination.
Keaton last played Batman in 1992’s “Batman Returns” but
quit the role during development of a third film after Burton was pushed out as
director and replaced with Joel Schumacher, who took the series in a campier
direction with 1995’s “Batman Forever” and its much-reviled 1997 follow up
“Batman & Robin.”
“The Flash” will disregard the latter two entries entirely
and explore what Keaton’s version of Batman has been up to since we last saw
him.